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How to replace Machine Name with Domain name in WCF Service wsdl link?

I personally came across this issue WCF was taking machine name not IP address or domain name and also I got questions from forums about “how to replaced Machine Name with Domain name in WCF Service wsdl link?”. This occurs when we host WCF service on IIS then the links to wsdl is uses local machine name not the domain name or IP address.

You can see in browser [here I used IP address of my machine] in wsdl link its adding my computer name, this is same issue when I publish this service on production; the wsdl link is taking name of production machine not domain.

I found some solutions which changes the bindings on server but again that is not helpful for me on production server however it works well on local machine.

Then I was checking the configurations and found solution for how Domain name replaced with Machine Name in WCF Service without playing with IIS bindings. In service behavior we can change the behavior of serviceMetadata which will FIX our problem. We need to specify on what location metadata will resides httpGetUrl or httpsGetUrl. We can add url having domain rather machine name. So final configuration should look like following which is our solution.